Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

To arrive at the truth, we must go behind what we see, for what we see
with the eyes is not true knowledge. True knowledge is knowing that
for all you see, there is always a hidden cause. It cannot be known by
studying mechanically, but by studying the mind and mental enquiry.
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There are three types of knowledge. Knowledge of material energy,
knowledge of mental energy and knowledge of cosmic energy. Cosmic
energy works in every person, in the form of Divine knowledge. Matter
in all forms is only energy. Without atoms you cannot have any matter,
and in the atom, energy has the form of electron, proton, neutron, etc.
Energy springs from the structure of the atomic constituents. For example
if you take water from the ocean in a vessel, it assumes its shape
and when the breeze blows there are ripples on it, which manifest energy
proportionate to the quantity of water in the vessel. But when the
whirlwind rages over the ocean the big waves can sink ships and pulverise
cliffs. Scientists only work on the external source of energy, they
don't investigate the internal sources. You go millions of miles into
space, but you don't go half-on-inch within, where lies your strength,
the Atman, the supreme power of the self. 21.9.80, (25-27/29)
Sai has not built these colleges and these hostels at the cost of crores
of rupees for his own glory. The world has a million colleges. But these
Sai Colleges aim produce a generation who will live ideal lives. If only
the students could absorb the right ideas and plunge into society with
their thirst for service as a spiritual duty, they would be proclaiming that
their humanness is worth-while. Ask yourself whether you deserve the
“human” nature inherent in you? Humility, readiness to serve, commiseration
at the suffering of others - these are the human traits of which
you should be examples. 18.7.81, (25-128)
Living, not for the sake of food, but for the sake of an ideal, is the goal
of education. The human personality must blossom into enthusiasm
for work, and eagerness to raise society to the highest level. (...)
Even if man does not elevate himself to Divinity, he must at least be
at the level of man! But, he does not live in a human way now. He has
become an inhuman inhabitant of the earth. Science has brought him
to the very brink of total disaster. The duty of science is to promote
love, sympathy, brotherhood and charity. (...)
In order to promote truth, righteousness, and universal love, the Sathya
Sai Trust has established primary schools, high schools, junior
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